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Wgetting bytes from random.org

Posted May 24, 2008 5:53 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Wgetting bytes from random.org by pr1268
Parent article: Appropriate sources of entropy

the sysadmin can add randomness, but the system will not trust that it is random (without
tweaking things via the ioctl), even if the sysadmin sends completely predictable data to
/dev/random it won't do any harm.

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